For those of you unfamiliar with my personal and professional timeline, I worked at the Santa Cruz Sentinel from October 2006 through the end of September 2007, first in a position accurately titled Webmaster, and later as the Online Editor, working in a mostly bright, young newsroom in downtown Santa Cruz, blocks from the Pacific [...]
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You have 17 nights left to Challenge yourself.
October 14, 2008
I remember where I was the first time I read about the Knight News Challenge and was inspired enough to blog about it.
A tire shop. This one:
(Photo yanked from Google Maps Street View.)
Seriously, it was late in September 2006 and I was sitting with my huge beast of a laptop in the waiting area at [...]
Map thyself
December 13, 2007
{Carnival! There’s a journalism blog carnival under way, hosted — if you can wrap your head around that concept — by the folks at Scribblesheet, some sort of collaborative writing tool I haven’t had a chance to look at yet. Here’s a review of their product at the Online Journalism Blog.}
I’ve written pretty [...]
Seven notes, six links
November 1, 2007
Hypothesis:
Dooce is (still) one of the best things on the Interweb.
Plea:
Jay Rosen has the beatblogging with a social network thing worked up pretty clearly at this point, but if the project doesn’t leave behind tools (a WordPress theme, a Drupal module, a useful set of forms — something more tangible than good ideas that [...]
Halloween debriefing, baby-friendly in 2007
November 1, 2007
Downtown Santa Cruz yesterday in daylight hours, among throngs of candy-seeking children and stroller-pushing parents (notably, myself, the wife, and our neighbors).
I’m the one in the funny hat.
Last year, this costume was quite a bit less baby-friendly.